Welcome to the Safety Tutorials
by Brian Calvert
Before you begin there are a three basic things you will have to have in order for your project to become a reality which I can not show you so I am writing about them. First and Foremost is Patience ! With out that you might as well hit the back button right now because things happen even with the best of planned jobs and no matter how simple or complex a task you set out for yourself you had better come equipped with plenty of Patience.
The Second thing you need to have is common sense and the ability to know when to walk away from a project if something starts to or does go wrong. It will do you absolutely no good to attack the project or get upset with it and in the long run you'll just end up having to undo the damage or take the loss and scrap the project if you can't walk away and cool off. Things happen without you even trying, some are great and others look really really bad. Just step back and think about it because unless you are working with a clear focused mind the problem will only get worse.
The Third thing you need is a commitment to follow through and get the job finished or find a way to have somebody else to do it and achieve the same results that you originally intended upon in the first place. Without this your dream will fade way and never be realized.....
Without those three tools built into your own personality your traveling down a dangerous road filled with ultimate satisfaction or disastrous results depending on where your project ends up......
Peace, Brian =o)
First we are going to talk about safety !
Woodworking can be hazardous to health
Working with wood in industry or at home exposes people to the risk of cancer and other diseases, says a research scientist for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. In addition to the toxic chemicals found in treated wood and wood coatings, potentially harmful exposure can come from fungi, bacteria and bark.
James Huff reports in a commentary for the March 2001 issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives that "a key to preventing occupationally and environmentally associated cancers, as in the wood industries, is avoiding exposures to chemicals and wood dusts and, in particular, chemicals known to cause cancer in animals or/and humans."
The list of potential targets is vast, from homeowners with do-it-yourself projects to musical instrument makers to sawmill workers. An increased risk of nasal cancer from wood dust exposure has been found in several independent studies.
The National Toxicology Program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently recommended that wood dust be listed in the department's 10th annual report on carcinogens, a document that lists substances found to cause cancer.
Workers with the highest exposure to wood dust were found to be press operators in the wood products industry, lathe operators in the furniture industry and sanders in the wood cabinet industry, according to a report to the National Toxicology Program.
Exposure to wood dust occurs when wood is sawed, but the danger doesn't end there. Wood dust is used as an ingredient in many products. Millions of pounds of wood dust are created each year. The material is used to make charcoal, as an absorbent in nitroglycerin, as a filler in plastics and in linoleum and paperboard. Environmental exposure to wood dust also occurs in the handling of compost that contains wood dust.
A variety of human and animal studies also reveal connections between chemicals found in wood and mutations in DNA, the building blocks of life. An increased frequency of DNA damage has been observed in the blood of humans exposed to wood dust.
A toxic wood preservative, pentachlorophenol (penta), contains dioxins and other cancer-causing substances.
Forests cover roughly one-third of the Earth's total land mass, and there are an estimated 12,000 species of trees, each producing a characteristic type of wood. Many tree species contain naturally occurring chemicals that are harmful when inhaled or when touched.
Exposure to wood dust has been regulated since 1970 by the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Construction Safety Act. Workers are required to minimize exposure by wearing respirators and other protective breathing masks. But with the rise of the home improvement movement over the past few years, more and more people are being exposed who do not work in any wood products industry.
About 25 million homeowners undertake some type of home improvement project each year. The Harvard report notes: "Half of all remodeling homeowners perform do-it-yourself projects, accounting for about $20 billion in materials spending each year."
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